Perl monking (was Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:02:04PM -0400,
Jay Ashworth blabbed on about:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:56:09PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > I actually ended up with:
> > 
> > perl -pi.bak -e 'BEGIN {$label=shift; $sub=shift;}
> >         if (/^$label:/)
> > 		s/^(.+:[^:]+")[^"]+(".*)/$1${sub}$2/;' $2 $3 $1
> > 
> > You forgot the if clause.  The trailing semicolon, too, in the -e, but
> > I suspect that's optional.
> > 
> > Testing now.
> 
> And teh answer is:
> 
> MsUs-1:/appl/filepro/dddtmp # mmreplace ./prc.jra tstdate replacement
> syntax error at -e line 3, near ")
>     s/^(.+:[^:]+")[^"]+(".*)/$1${sub}$2/"
> Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
> 

Put {} around the action in the if statement; this ain't python.

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